Re: [xsl] reverse and forward order

>From XSLT terminology FAQ at http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/xslvocab.html
>
>"DOCUMENT ORDER:A traversal of the document tree from start to end, in
>written order. The ancestor and preceding axes use reverse document order
>and the attribute and namespace axes are unordered. If parentheses are used
>for grouping, you will always get forward document order."
Actually the quote is wrong (DAVEP:-)
the attribute and namespace are both forwards axes.
What Dave means about paremthesese is
ancestor::*[1] gives you the first ancestor in reverse document order
ie your parent
whereas
(ancestor::*)[1] gives you your first ancestor in document order, ie
your most ancient ancestor; Adam (or Eve) in some
cultures.
David
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